Advanced care planning in the early phase of COVID-19: a rapid review of the practice and policy lessons learned.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The importance of advance care planning (ACP) has been highlighted by the advent of life-threatening COVID-19. Anecdotal evidence suggests changes in implementation of policies and procedures is needed to support uptake of ACPs. We investigated the barriers and enablers of ACP in the COVID-19 context and identify recommendations to facilitate ACP, to inform future policy and practice.

Methods

We adopted the WHO recommendation of using rapid reviews for the production of actionable evidence for this study. We searched PUBMED from January 2020 to April 2021. All study designs including commentaries were included that focused on ACPs during COVID-19. Preprints/unpublished papers and Non-English language articles were excluded. Titles and abstracts were screened, full

SUBMITTER: Younan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10541151 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature